New International Reader's Version

John 15:12-18 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

12. "Here is my command. Love each other, just as I have loved you.

13. No one has greater love than the one who gives his life for his friends.

14. You are my friends if you do what I command.

15. "I do not call you servants anymore. Servants do not know their master's business. Instead, I have called you friends. I have told you everything I learned from my Father.

16. "You did not choose me. Instead, I chose you. I appointed you to go and bear fruit. It is fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you anything you ask for in my name.

17. "Here is my command. Love each other.

18. "Does the world hate you? Remember that it hated me first.